Happy Fall Friday!

 Happy First Friday of Fall!

I hope you had a fabulous week!  We had another wonderful week!  The kids are working so hard, participating and staying focused!  

If your student is participating in a sport, I would love to try my best to come see them play.  Please send me their schedule and I will try my best to come out and support them!

On Sunday early evening, I would love to have a whole class read aloud.  I have a book that I feel fits perfectly with how every one is working together to support our students and would like to share it with your student and your family.  If you would like to join us, please login to our Zoom link (same Zoom link students use for class) at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday and we will share the book together.  This is completely optional and I understand if you are not able to come, I just wanted to invite everyone. 

Important Upcoming Events

• Family Read Aloud: Sunday, September 27 at 5:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 6: Slim Chickens Fundraiser (20% of sales come back to RBE with flyer)
• Wednesday, October 7: Andy's Frozen Custard (all locations)Fundraiser ($1 for each treat sold comes back to RBE with flyer)
• Thursday, October 8: Angelo's Pizza and Steakhouse Fundraiser (10% of sales come back to RBE with flyer)

Non-Chicken BBQ 

• Our Chicken BBQ will look a different this year, but our wonderful PTA has been working hard to still have some parts of the Chicken BBQ happen.  :)
• We will have a silent auction and more information will be coming soon about it.  I have a fun ice cream outing available in the Teacher Town section.
• We will still have a raffle for a $250 Hyvee Gift Card.  You can sell raffle tickets to your family and friends for $1 a chance.  Simply collect the money for the tickets you sell. Turn in the money you collected for the tickets (checks payable to RBE PTA, or Venmo the RBE -PTA account with your student’s name, teacher’s name and number of tickets purchased) and the completed raffle tickets to the white drop box outside the office by Wednesday, October 7^th.  The winner will be drawn and announced on Thursday, October 8^th.  Here is the form.

We have 3 Family Eat Out fundraisers planned the week of October 5.  They are listed under Important Upcoming Events.  

Next Week's Learning

Reading

• We will be reading a nonfiction book and discussing how we know it is non-fiction as opposed to fiction.
• We will also be working on visualizing and making a picture in our head while reading/listening to a book.
• We will learn about story elements and making connections in books. 

Writing

• We will start writing a narrative next week.  We will discuss the characteristics of narrative writing.
• We are still working on complete sentences with capital letters and punctuation.
• The first narrative will be about a time they experienced a storm.  

Fundations

• We will be starting unit 2 next week.  
• This unit introduces r-controlled vowels.  During this unit, we will focus on reading words with r-controlled vowels, but not yet writing them.  
• Our trick words for next week are full, pull, shall.  Last week's words were you, your, was, said, one, they.  You can still practice these words also.

Math

• We will be learning a new game called Fishing for 10 and being able to quickly identify combinations of 10.
• We will introduce the quarter.  Please practice skip counting by 25's with your student.  This can be tricky for them at first.
• We will also be learning how to determine if the number is even or odd.

Science

• We will be comparing habitats and ecosystems next week.  Students will get to go on PebbleGo and learn about 2 different ecosystems and then compare them. 

Have a fabulous weekend!

Happy Friday!

 Happy Friday!

We are finding a routine and I am so proud of the students!  I am so excited to get to read their dream pet writing and also see their self-portraits.  I am going to print off their portraits and hang them around my work area so I get to be surrounded by them!  If you are not linked to your student in Seesaw and would like to be, please let me know and I will get you the link.

Thank you to everyone who picked up the supply bags yesterday!  I hope these supplies make learning from home a bit easier.  

Another HUGE thank you to all the families, friends and day cares for helping get the students on Zoom and making sure they have the materials they need to be successful during our school day.  I know a virtual school day seems longer than a "normal" school day.  I also know I really enjoying getting to know the students more and more each day and seeing their personalities come out and couldn't be more proud of how hard they are working!

Just a reminder, Wednesday is a teacher work day, so students will not have class on Wednesday.

Mrs. McKinzie has set up a plan for library check out while we are virtual.  Here is a link to the video.  I shared this video with the students on Monday and I think some have already requested some books.  Please make a plan to pick up books once you receive an email stating your books are ready.  Once your students have finished reading their books, there is a red book return by the parent pick up doors.

Next Week's Learning

Math

• We will be looking at the number grid and identifying patterns that we see and discussing how we can use those patterns to help as when we use the number grid as a tool.
• We will be creating multiple number sentences for the same number (example: 1+4, 2+3, 5+0 all equal 5).  

Reading

• We will be working on identifying the author's purpose (to inform, entertain or persuade).
• We will be discussing the difference between fiction and non-fiction.
• We will be identifying the characteristics of a poem.

Writing

• We are going to continue building our stamina for writing next week.  We are also making sure we have capital letters, punctuation and complete sentences.
• We will also be working on rhyming words as we look at poetry.

Fundations

• We will be learning the rule for when to use c, k or ck when making the /k/ sound.
• We will start identifying how many syllables are in a word and then labeling our closed syllables.
• Our trick words for next week are they, said, one, you, your, was.  These are words that cannot be tapped out and need to be memorized.

Science

• Next week, we will be learning about birds and their beaks.  We will learn about how birds eat different foods based on their beaks.  

Please reach out if you have any questions.  I will do my best to answer them!  

Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy First Friday!

 Happy Friday!

I hope you have had a wonderful week! I am really enjoyed getting to spend my days with your students.  

I know learning over a screen is not ideal and can be difficult, but the kids are doing amazing!  The participation is awesome!  A huge thank you to everyone who is helping students get on zooms!

Next Week-More Content

Next week, we will start with teaching content.  We will be spend about 20-25 minutes teaching a lesson and then students will then have independent practice based on our lesson.  It can be tempting to start a break a little early or have an extra break when they sign off Zoom, but it is important for students to use the rest of the allotted time to do the assigned activity whether it is in Seesaw, Benchmark Universe or St Math.  I will stay on Zoom for the rest of time (for example if I sent them off to do math at 10:05, I will stay on Zoom until 10:25 when our break starts) so students can log back in if they have questions.  

Electronic Library Options

Mrs. McKinzie taught the students about our electronic library options today.  There are multiple options under the Electronic Library folder on ClassLink.  Students can also access Epic Monday-Friday from 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. for free using our class code, wek7430.

Next Week's Learning

Math

• We will start our first unit in math on Monday.  This first unit is more of a review of different concepts.  Next week, we will focus on number lines and counting coins.
• Students will have assignments to complete in Seesaw for math.  They will also be completing some pages in their math journal and then taking pictures to upload to Seesaw.

Science

• Our first unit of science is Plants and Animals.  Next week, students will complete an activity that focused on classifying animals by similar characteristics.  

Fundations

• We will be using the students letter tiles they cut out this week and their page protector/cardstock whiteboard.  If students are missing something from their Fundations kit, please let me know and I will make sure it gets in their bag at supply pick up next week.
• The first unit of Fundations focuses on spelling with digraphs and blends.  We will practice building and writing words. 
• Trick words are words that can't be "tapped out" or sounded out.  They just need to be memorized.  Our trick words for next week are have, come and from.  

Reading

• The first few weeks of reading will focus on learning routines as a reader. Next week, we will start writing reading responses to books that are read aloud.  Your students will receive a reading response journal at supply pick up.  For Monday and Tuesday, students will simply need a piece of paper and a pencil to write their response.   

Writing

• Next week, students will just get some practice getting back in the routine of writing.  They will receive a writer's notebook at supply pick up on Thursday.
• We will focus on capital letters, punctuation and spelling words following Fundations rules.  

Important Upcoming Events

• Tuesday, September 15: PTA Meeting via Zoom
• Thursday, September 17: Supply Pick Up from 2:30-5:30 p.m.
• Students will be receiving their school supply kit (if ordered, if you didn't order, you can bring $27 check or cash to purchase one), Stylus, reading notebook and writing notebook.

I have thoroughly enjoyed spending my week with your student and I am very excited to get to spend the year with them!

Have a fabulous weekend!